Details

Other Title:

Dānacandrikā.

Subjects:

Garuḍa (Mythical bird).
Dharma.
Rites and ceremonies.
Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
India.
Gifts -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu law.
Dharma -- Early works to 1800.
Hanumān (Hindu deity) -- Art -- Early works to 1800.
Hanumān (Hindu deity).
Garuḍa (Mythical bird) -- Art -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Art.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manual and treatise, with associated rules and laws (dharma) regarding proper gift giving and related rites and ceremonies. Hanuman the monkey general and an anthropomorphic Garuda, the bird vehicle of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu, are drawn on the front cover (f. 1r)

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11r); alternate title Dānacandrikā from colophon (f. 11r).
Written in 1-11 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti dānacaṃdrikāyāṃ meṣadānavidhiḥ // (f. 11r).
Dated 1703 (1781) (f. 11r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 3118 (UP 1377).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1377.

OCLC:

909568606